Though they have lost their opening two games, Panthers fans can at least celebrate the play of first-round draft pick Star Lotulelei (+4.3) through the early part of the season. Though his stat line doesn’t jump off the screen at you, with just one quarterback hurry and two tackles, he seemed to have the better of Bills’ left guard Colin Brown for much of the encounter. His day was highlighted by a tackle for loss on 3rd-and-4 with 8:51 left in the first quarter, bursting past Brown straight off the snap to take down Fred Jackson for a four-yard loss. The tackle would push the Bills’ ensuing field goal try to 42 yards, with kicker Dan Carpenter hooking it wide right.

I think I may have missed that 21 yard run sunday. I went to the restroom and heard screaming so I ran back out. I was told by other bar folk that I was bad luck and needed to watch the game in the restroom because when I wasn't in the restroom, panthers were looking good.

While it wasn’t a great all-around performance, the type of pass rushing shown by Mario Williams was enough to win him the PFF Game Ball. Byron Bell will be having nightmares about his bull rush for weeks to come.

I want to see our avg yds per carry with cam under center vs when we run the read option out of shotgun. The read option absolutely kills our run game. Every time DW gets the ball he is tackled at the line.